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Brother
Burhan,

I have
questions w.r.t to DUA after every farzh prayer(5 time prayer) and asking dua
in groups or during any congregation.

I'm getting
confused as one who follows as per tawheed(QURAN & HADiTH) says asking dua
after farzh prayer is not allowed and it not specified any where in quran
or hadith.Is this true based on Quran & Hadeeth.

As such,Does
dua happen in makkah & medina after every farzh prayer and I heard they do
ask dua after every farzh prayer as well.

Imam of
makkah & medina has great understanding of quran and hadeeth than we are
and how will they go wrong if that is the case .

Please
clarify this based on quran & hadith.

Looking
forward to hear from you ASAP.

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Answer:

Dua supplications
after fard prayer congregation

In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His
help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide,
and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear
witness that there is none worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear
witness that Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His
Messengers.

Respected brother, to clarify the matter, lets divide the
issue of making dua or supplications into three parts:

The
making of dua or supplications individually after one’s prayers.

The
making of dua or supplications by the ‘imam’ leading the prayer during the
congregation.

The
making of dua or supplications by an ‘imam’ in congregation after the
prayers.

Ref-1:
The making of dua or supplications individually after one’s prayers.

Fiqh-us-Sunnah Fiqh 1.164

It is Sunnah for the believers to use a number of words of
remembrance and supplications which have been related from the Prophet (saws).
The many reports include the following:

1.Reported Thauban, "When the Prophet
(saws) would finish his prayer, he would seek Allah's forgiveness three times
and then say, 'O Allah, You are The Peace, and from You is Peace. You are
filled with Good, O Sublime and Honorable One." (Related by Muslim)

2.One day the Prophet (saws) took Hadrat
Mu'adh ibn Jabal's (r.a.) hand and said to him, "O Mu'adh, I love
you." Mu'adh responded, "May my father and mother be sacrificed for
you, O Messenger of Allah (saws), I love you (too)." Then the Prophet
(saws) said, "I advise you, O Mu'adh, say at the end of every prayer, 'O
Allah, aid me in Your remembrance, Your thanks, and in perfecting Your worship."
(Related by Ahmad, Abu Dawud, an-Nasa'i, Ibn Khuzaimah, Ibn Hibban and
al-Hakim)

3.Reported Abdullah ibn Zubair (r.a.),
"When the Prophet (saws) made the ‘tasleem’ at the end of the prayer, he
(saws) would say, 'There is no god but Allah the One. There is no partner with
Him, to Him belongs the Sovereignty and to Him is due all Praise. He has power
over all things. (Related by Bukhari and Muslim.)

There are several phrases of Remembrance and supplications
which the Messenger of Allah (saws) himself made and guided the believers to
make after their prayers; thus to declare phrases of the Remembrance of Allah
and make supplications individually after one’s prayers is an extremely
preferred Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah (saws).

Ref-2:
The making of dua or supplications by the ‘imam’ leading the prayer during the

congregation.

Ibn Abbas (r.a.) relates that the Messenger
of Allah (saws) made ‘qunut’ supplications consecutively for one month in all
the five obligatory prayers ‘dhuhr’, 'asr’, ‘maghrib’, 'isha’, and the ‘fajr’
prayers. At the end of every prayer, after saying: "Allah hears him who
praises Him" in the last rak'ah, he (saws) would supplicate against Re'l,
Dhakwan, and Usiyyah of the tribe of Banu Sulaim (these three had killed the
emissaries that the Prophet (saws) had sent to them) and the companions behind
him would say 'Ameen'.

Related by Ahmad and by Abu Dawood.

There is evidence in the authentic and established Sunnah
that during extremely trying times, the Messenger of Allah (saws) did indeed
make ‘qunut’ supplications during the congregational prayer. Thus if the ‘imam’ leading the congregation
makes a ‘qunut’ supplication during the prayers, there is absolutely no harm
and it would be in accordance with the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah (saws).

Ref-3:
The making of dua or supplications by an ‘imam’ in congregation after the
prayers.

To the best of our knowledge, there is absolutely no
evidence in the authentic and established Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah
(saws) whereby he (saws) as the ‘imam’ would ever makecollective supplications after the fard
prayers, or after any other prayers for that matter.

It would be best for the ‘imaams’ who lead the prayers and
the believers at large to abstain from doing something in the deen which was
neither practiced nor endorsed by the Messenger of Allah (saws); for that then
would indeed constitute a case for introducing or following a ‘bida’ or
innovation in the deen.

Aisha narrated that
the Messenger of Allah (saws) said: ‘If somebody innovates something which is
not present in our religion, then that thing will be rejected.’

Related by Bukhari.

Q-1: I have
questions w.r.t to DUA after every farzh prayer(5 time prayer) and asking dua
in groups or during any congregation.

It is an extremely preferred Sunnah for an individual to
recite phrases of Remembrance or supplicate their Lord Most Gracious after
their prayers.

It is from amongst the Sunnah if an ‘imam’ leading the
congregation chooses to make supplications during the congregational prayer.

But there is absolutely no evidence in the authentic and
established Sunnah regarding the making of group supplications after the
prayers.

Q-2: As
such,Does dua happen in makkah & medina after every farzh prayer and I
heard they do ask dua after every farzh prayer as well.

The ‘imams’ who lead the prayers in congregation in the
Holy Masjids in Makkah and Madinah may recite phrases of Remembrance and
supplicate Allah Subhanah on an individual basis, or aloud during the
congregational prayers (qunut); and that would be in accordance with the Sunnah
of the Messenger of Allah (saws)….but to the best of our knowledge and
experience, we have never seen or heard the ‘imams’ make collective
supplications after the prayers.And
Allah Alone Knows Best.

Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only
due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me
alone.Allah Alone Knows Best and He is
the Only Source of Strength.